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powerline to detached garage
I have a detached garage about 75' from my house and I'm trying to find out if a powerline network would be a good solution to expand my dsl connection since my wifi signal from my router doesnt quite...
Eskimo1 wrote: all I've done so far is hook them up in adjacent rooms back in the house to verify they work, but I don't have a lot of flexibility on where in the garage they go. Going to also try swapping the garage outlet to another breaker on the other leg of the 220v main feed to maybe help things a little.
An update.. I wired in an outlet right at the breaker box in the garage and was able to get a 11m/15m connection. I then tried moving the breaker for this outlet to the other leg of the 220 feed, and viola! 49m/75m speed reported.
I just ran a 50' cat5 from the AV200 to the AP (centrally located in the garage), and everything is working great now.
My usage is just for sharing the 3M DSL connection we have here, so I can't comment about anything more bandwidth intensive.
Though my setup has no interference other than my own stuff (we have our own transformer on the property too as there's no other houses close), I'd say the number of hops made it a challenge for the equipment, but it works with no noticable lag. ping times are 3ms.